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Show oo - UNCERTAINTY AND CALAMITY Former Governor Cox, In addressing j &00 American business men in Lon- tf. eaid Prance is in gloom, and if Germany and Austria collapse, France is likely to follow. That Germany Is on the verge of disaster is disclosed In the following cablegram from Berlin: Ber-lin: 'The reichsbauk of issue for Germany Ger-many was closed by police this morning morn-ing following a free-for-all fist fight in a Tush of representatlvess of employers em-ployers for marks to meet overdue payrolls. A score of rioters were shot by police, several of them fatally wounded, when they looted the shops at Eberswald. an hour's ride from Berlin. Ber-lin. Police suppressed a small demonstration dem-onstration against the cost of living in a Berlin market on the east side These are the main symptoms of economic eco-nomic ills in Germany manifested in the last twenty-four honrs. Despite the fact that the government is printing print-ing two and a half billion marks dally, the relchnbank is unable to pay demands, de-mands, with the ro6ult that numerous factories, and even the Adlon hotel, are unable to meet their payrolls. The banks are unable to cash orders and are paying them by drawing cashier's checks on the bank " What ails this old world in which we have our being? In whatever direction direc-tion you turn there Is uncertainty, alarm, turmoil and calamity. |